LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 66, 27 November 1875, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

f riiKSS AIiUN (j V. I iioivrrrKA. A ovcmber 25. Mr Tribe. M.1T.11., member for r l’< was presented wiih a. purse of sovereig) 8 it the 1 last night. Non'-'ii b t 20, Beef at yards averaged 05s to 42s pr lOOlbs; sheep 10s lo 21s 04 each. WELLINGTON. November 24. It is now definitely staled that Joseph Klmiles will In? a candidate for Napier. ■ Information lias boon ivo,4\oil that Hr Julius Vogel will nut cimu) out via I 1 ’risen, but by steamer direct, prolnbly tbn Zealandin, the new steamer for lii > .Frisco .service, expected to arrive -in January. Kir Julius will be accompanied by bis family. November 25. It is understood that T. W. L. Travers’ a 'dress to the (doctors of Wellington will npp >ar in (lie Timex to-morrow. His platform will bo the same ns Gisborne’s. There Is another candidate also spoken of as likely to come forward next week. Hunter and Pearce have published their adresse.s to the electors, announcing their intention of again standing for the City, and promising to address the electors in public after (be writs are issued. ,Hunter, while admitting that though a Government supporter in all else but the Abolition ol Provinces, and against which he voted, says he feels convinced it would be useless attempting to re-establish the old form of Provincial Government. PearceVaddress is nieri^fonnal. Gisborne in bis address regrets the question of abolition was not submitted sooner to the free con iibration of the people at this general election. Ho thinks provincial legislaiion should cease, and provinces no longer exist. He opposes Jtt insular separation, but thinks the colony * sniVers from , unequal, improvident, and Hurried linanee. He favours the elective principle in the constitution of the Legis ative Gonncil. Priviiiges of Halt course for next races Hold to-day. Publicans booths feteiied ■from £OS In £si> ; confectioners' booths. .Cl to £l6; stables, £2, 10s to £4 10s ; the right to sell cards and betting books, £6O. The Stewards keep the gate themselves. Privileges, without the gate, realised £278. Tins is a considerable increase upon last year’s prices.

■November kb. E (wards to day commences his (eat of walking H)5 miles in 24 hours. Travers, in his address to electors, op irises the continuance of: Provineiahsm an I dismemberment of Colony. Ihe yV/ee.s' declares in favor of Pearce and Hunter as against Gisborne and Travers. It is announced that the new proprieLiry of the Tnhiuui will ho Messrs Gillon. Kent, and Waters, and the title Ecnuny A"J •' eonnm'iiees 4lh December. DUX EI.)IN. November kb. Tim shop of Kelly, butcher at I‘elicliet Hav, was bund down last nigld. Six cas s of scarlet fever are reported hv tin- Medical Ib-alth Ollice.r in one house m'HI d! land-sHea'. Th> house is qnaranUned, and every exertion is being made t, is Ate the persons ‘attacked. All the papers have strong articles, urging' the most stringent measures to prevent spread dis ais ■. It was brought over her." by a passenger, per iiiugarooma cm her last trip. WANGANUI. November 20. Two men were drowned near [he Hallway Bridge to day. hive men were crossing in a boat during a heavy iresh in the river, the boat Was swept against, a line, and upset. Iwo got out ea-aly, another bad a narrow ('scape, iwo were swept away. Oneheivesa wheand bunny. The bodies are not yet recovered till the fresh subsides. BLUFF. November 25. Arrived —Ship Peter Denny, 87 days out from Condon, (.lean hill ut health. Eight deaths during the voyage. No sickness during the last two months, ine Heath Officer has not yet boarded her. CHRISTCHURCH. November 24. Joseph Heswiek. who again opposes the the lion. C. C. Howen for Kaiapoi, addressed a large meeting of electors at Kaiapoi last night. He said that although as s; rung a h"ii< ver as ever in Provincial instil minus, lie felt 1 lint it inns! he accepted as a fact, that not wit iislan. ling that the Abolition Hill has not yet become, law, Provincialism as they had known it was dead ; and i f ref limed he would end -avonr to exercise his vote in such a direction as would give them as ii“arly as possible what lii"V had lost, and what in his opinion lead raised the country 1" the present slate _ ol prosperity, vi/.. Provincialism. A motion that this meeting lias every confidence)!! H swiek. and p’edges itselt !o support him at the elec' ion. was carried by acclamation without a ills sentient voice. H. L. Higgins 1 M.P.f'., offers himself for Ashley, in opposition in J. H. Hro\vn. AUCKLAND. November 24. The Captain of the Vasco j lead's! guilty at ih" n■ i'iec e .ii I to-day, to the charge of refusing to giv" (he pilot eoinmand of ship on its ta.-t arrival, and eras lined Ls and easts. No\ cud'cr 25. Grey convenes a. meeting of his constituent! et'Ciiv West for Monday—“To acquaint von with my vie,vs on the presimr. state of public affairs in the colony. ’ Buck lan ! reports fat cattle.Us (o <s (Id 'over; As lid to 52s per lUdlhs ; fat s!i■ -ep Inver ; ndilig 2;,h! to Ed. Arrive I—Mission1 —Mission .schooner .Southern ( T'JSS. LA'i'UST ENGLISH NEWS. LONDON. November Ilk 'flie English and Foreign Press attach great importance lo the sneecb d livered by I lisraeli at tic I.ord Mayor’s banquet. Tlii* Prince of Wales laid the fonndalion stone of the new dock at Bombay with Ah Isolde (T niu mies. Cablegrams in'ennptc 1. SINGAPORE. November 18. There has been a good deal of fighting at Pcratas. r i’he English troops captured some etockades. i-epofsed fbc Malay s, took six cannon, and burnt several villages along I he line. Cable since interrupted. LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. SYDNEY. November II). It was stated by Hums, in answer to a question put by' Hoskins in the; Legislative Assembly, that the Government refused to sanction any deviation from the terms of eon!raet for the Pacific mail service and (lint in taking this course they were acting in concurrence with the New Zealand GovernmciV. The Postmaster Genera! also staled that in the event of flic Vasco de Gama proceeding by any than the direct route mails would only be given her as to any private vessels. Hull, manager of the Pacific Mail Company'. has consented to convey New Zealand exhibits for Philadelphia to Frisco free of charge. Sy d icy' authorities refused to sanction the Vasco deGaina coming via Auckland instead of performing the service via Fiji as contracted. They did not advertise the ma! 1 , hut got one ready and placed it aboard her as an ordinary sinp, holding the contractors responsible for the deviation. They a'so refused to send the Auckland mail. The Vasco do Gama leaves this afternoon for Frisco. The Airawatn, for the New Zealand trade, a rived at Melbourne via the Cape. Rebellion at the Diamond Fields collapsed. The rebels contemplated seizing Licet Governor Sontbby and HeeretaryAn expedilionhas been scntlo the fevorhaiiiit.'d marshes of North Western Africa to punish a horde of pirates for plundering an English vessel early in Hie year. The public won 4:30,000 on Woollomat. MELBOURNE. Loss, the Registrar concerned in the mock marriage has been found guilty', but recommended to mercy. ADELAIDE. Dreadful mu’rd oi near Wentworth. 1 ichard Anderson, station man, quarrelled ■with the i o )k, Edward Brown, knocked him down, dragged him into the river and .both were drowned.